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Ground Bees. Yellow Jackets.

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Hello Folks. I am looking for help with ground bees attacking. I cut a 2 acre field after the grass, weeds etc. reach about two feet tall. I only see the bees after being stung. Anyone have an idea about not getting stung. Thanks to all.
 
First off there are wasps and bees to different insect and I hate people calling a wasp a bee.
As for what to do about them as in yellow jacket wasps find there nest and wait till dark and pour some gas down it
 

Either a tractor with a cab, or wear long pants, a jacket, gloves, and a full face motorcycle helmet. Don't laugh. I have done that.
 
get a pro vent bee keeper suit. mann lake bee keeper supply sells them. its a vented breathable suit. i have one and it works well on a hot day working in my bee yard. a little spendy but it beats getting chewed up by wasps. here is a link
poke here
 
They tend to fly the same paths, and usually don't wonder around like bee's, so if you see some flying, they are either leaving or going to nest. You can set bait out and try to see where they are coming/going. Any meat items, like sandwich meat, or chicken/beef might lure them, you can also try a bowl of cool-aid, soda, or sugar water. Just put the bait close where you think the nest is and sit back and watch.

They aren't real aggressive until you are right on the nest, you should be able to walk up to the nest site or near it without them attacking. The noisy tractor and mower is what stir them up.
 
Go back and watch for them to find their hole. After dark pour a little gasoline in it, doesnt take much, maybe a pint. Another option is 7 dust. Squirt it in the hole so they track it through out the nest.
 
Pour some diesel fuel in the hole and done. The fuel will kill them on contact. Works on Bumble bee nests too. It all works better if you can mow even close to the nest/hole.
 
I haven't had a problem since I started using a tractor with a cab on it for mowing. I do see them flying around outside sometimes though.
 
I love the idea of taking my portable little generator and a shop vac with the big paper filter bag installed. Suck them little &%$$@@ up into the vac. Then give it a good squirt of wasp killer. Just not enough to blowup the shop vac. When you get all of them then pour gas in the nest hole to finish the job.
 
Similar to Rusty, but I use a sandblast "helmet". Biggest problem with being all covered up is heat, of course- I just had one area of field with multiple nests, so I took off the helmet and loosened up the
clothes until the next round.
 
I've gotten into 3 nests in the last month working in the woods. They always see me before I see them, I don't know any way around that. The last nest I found I managed to not get stung but I attribute that to luck more than anything.
 
I think the question here is about not getting stung in the first place, not how to kill them after they ve stung him. I used to run into this 6-10 times a year when I bush hogged my hay fields. Not many options, bee suit and cabbed tractor. I started watching well out in front of the tractor for the swarm near the ground. Eventually I was able to see most of them and stop in time without getting stung. Most.
 
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